The Groovy Sixties Pokie Machine
Online casino games supplier has already brought us the Funky Seventies pokie and now they are going even further back in time with The Groovy Sixties video pokie. They are in full Austin Powers mode with this one, having lots of bright colours surrounding the 5 reels, which are in turn filled with psychedelic Volkswagen Beetles, lava lamps, platform boots and other items that are so intrinsically linked to a time when hippies wanted to make love, not war.
We thought this may be a direct copy of The Funky Seventies but it has a different set of rules and while there’s nothing particularly unique about them, stacked wilds and free spins with multipliers are always a welcome addition to any pokie, especially one that looks as good as this. Crossing the reels, we see 40 paylines although punters won’t need to activate them all to get the reels spinning and with a low limit of just 0.01 needed to start, it’s a great value game. Of course, this will only activate a single line and any winning combinations landing on the other 39 won’t count, so to get it all in play, 0.40 will be needed and the high limit per spin is 80.00. Free The Groovy Sixties video pokie games are provided at most sites for players who just want to test it out first.
The standard setup has winlines formed when 3, 4 or 5 of the same symbol land on adjacent reels across a line from the left side, a pattern which changes when wilds and scatter symbols come into play, but the majority of prizes will be paid this way and the amount won is calculated as a multiple of the stake per line.
Playing The Groovy Sixties
There’s a paytable that tells players exactly what each combination is worth and the lower value, but subsequently more frequent, wins are going to come from seeing the J, K, Q and A symbols. Each of these in in a swirly 1960’s-inspired typeface on a colourful dot and they are all worth the same amount, with 3 on a line paying 5x, while 4 are worth a win of 20x the line bet and having a payline filled with a playing card symbol will see a return of 100x.
The picture symbols run from the lava lamps and boots, which are both valued at 5, 50 or 150x, through the Super 8 film camera, a reel to reel tape deck, while an old TV set and the VW will each reward the top picture symbol payouts of 25, 100 or 400x when landing on 3, 4 or 5 reels across a payline.
Wild substitutions are possible when the 60’s Wild symbol appears. This multi-coloured, swirly image is bright enough to cause migraines, but it can solve a few headaches when it pays out 50, 200 or 1000x the line bet. It’s also able to replace all others, apart from the scatter symbol which can help to complete winning lines, a task made easier by the fact that it will be stacked on any reel that it appears on.
The Groovy Sixties
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A brunette girl against a blue background is what suffices for a scatter symbol in this game and while she looks at little bit like she’s from the 1960’s, it’s not obvious. Never mind though, as she will award a prize of 2x the total spin stake when landing in any 3 or more places at once, while simultaneously awarding players with 5 free spins.
Now 5 spins doesn’t sound like much, and indeed it isn’t, but we need to take into account that any coin wins during these bonus games are doubled in value, while landing 3 scatters again will re-trigger the round and award another 2x prize. Standard reels are in play though, so the odds of actually getting a win are the same as in the normal run of play.
The Verdict
The Groovy Sixties is a perfectly decent little online casino pokie that has some nice images and a funky soundtrack to go along with it. It’s not exactly ground-breaking however, with standard features that have been seen on many other games and to be honest, 5 free spins isn’t a great deal in which to get some win multipliers.
But the bonuses are tried and tested and have proved to be popular over the years, so online gambling enthusiasts who likes the looks will probably enjoy giving these far-out reels a few spins. It isn’t mobile-optimised however, so it’s going to have to be at the desktop versions of sites that feature Net Ent pokies.